Posts by Sam Ontario

Banias had 2 years, Dothan has 1.5 years. Life is short for Dual Core, less than a year, then it comes the Meron. Perhaps its not cost effective for Dell to have so manay models with a life span of less than a year.

Well, I had a Dell Latitude CPiA PII 400MHz bought in early 2001, 12GB HDD upgraded to 20GB windows 2000, 128MB memory upgraded to 256MB, CDROM drive, floppy drive, 1xUSB port, 1xprinter port, 1xCom port, 2xPC card slots with modem card...

Pls excuse my ignorant, I have been a PC user since the DOS and the IBM XT era. My applications on PCs mainly involved in internet surfing, e-mailing, word processing, spreadsheet, a little bit of presentation, scanning photographs,...

Look at GenTecPC's picture: Meron has 2 versions, one for NAPA Platform with 667FSB and one for Santa Rosa which has 800FSB!

Wrong wording! He probably meant as sick as W3j!

My recommendation: Definitely W3J

I agree and nice and thats how economy grows. Spending makes everybody happy except the parents of the college students!

For college work, why Meron? For gaming with future games? I would say Dothan is far already more than sufficient for college work!

Pinmod only suitable for 915 chipsets with Pentium M 715, 725, 735, 745, not for 710, 720, 730, etc. It also possed a greater risk of damaging notebook computers and void warranty!

At this stage, these gentlemen are still under their controls not like some of the running out of control threads on some forums and I do learn/appreciate their efforts from them their views up to page 47. I value freedom of...